Mars making closest approach to Earth in 15 years

That's because it is - well, sort of. First, a solar wind proton approaches Mars at high speed and encounters a cloud of hydrogen surrounding the planet.

Although Mars will be closer than normal, it will still only appear as a bright, red point of light in the sky and not as large as the moon, noted Accuweather.com, a reference to a hoax that made the rounds in 2003.

Mars will reach opposition on July 27.

Mars and Earth line up just 57.6 million km apart at the end of July, equaling the proximity records set in 2003 and some 60,000 years before.

Astronomers have revealed that Mars will be within a close range of our planet Earth on July 25 - fifteen years after its closest brush with Earth. Instead, they have elliptical, or egg-shaped, paths with orbits that change as a result of gravitational tugging.

It will pass within 35.8 million miles from Earth.

Mars will be at its brightest appearance since 2003 when Mars made its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years. "This is one of the largest weather events that we've seen on Mars", since spacecraft observations began in the 1960s, said Michael Smith, a scientist at NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center.

So what's the big deal about the close approach? "If Earth and Mars followed perfectly circular orbits, opposition would be as close as the two planets could get". Stargazers can see the red planet by looking south after sunset.

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The last time Mars was bigger and brighter than this was in 2003, when it was less than 56 million kilometres away from Earth. And finally - the Moon is near apogee (the most distant point in its orbit) around the July full moon, Edberg said.

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